2013 ACP Survey Results

After CP 2013, a survey was sent out to:
the ACP membership, the Yahoo mailing list, and the CP 2013 attendees.
We obtained a total of 102 responses.
A summary of the responses automatically
generated by the survey software can be downloaded below.

Highlights of the survey results follow:

The Applications Track has good interest: 37 out of 74 respondents
who attended CP 2013 gave it as a reason for attending, and 41 liked it,
with just a few against.

The Workshops serve to complement the main conference:
33 out of 74 respondents who attended CP 2013 were co-authors or
presenters of workshop papers, and 25 liked the workshops.

General-purpose activities are appreciated:
25 out of 74 respondents who attended CP 2013 gave an overview of the field
as a reason for attending, 26 liked the tutorials, 29 liked the new concept
of a public lecture (which was also misunderstood by some),
25 liked the new competition, and the new idea of a live blogger was
also appreciated.

On the scope of the conference:
49 of 98 respondents prefer the scope being unchanged, but 42 prefer a widening of scope. Underrepresented topics include above all real-world applications and comparisons, but also (in alphabetic order) big data, cross-disciplinary research, databases, data mining, graphics, hybrid techniques, knowledge representation, local search, machine learning, and verification.

The low registration fee at CP 2013 (thanks to record-breaking sponsorship)
was not a big factor for attracting registrations to CP 2013
(only 5 of 74 respondents selected it as a reason), and this needs to
be examined in more depth.